The infamous hacker, whose real name is Marcel Lehel Lazar,
recently spoke with Fox News from a jail cell in Virginia
where he is being held. He was extradited from Romania after
being arrested in January 2014 following a string of email
hacks of high-profile individuals,
including former Secretary of State Colin Powell, US Sen.
Lisa Murkowski, and friends and family of President George W.
Bush.

Lazar told Fox News he accessed Clinton's server "like twice" but
found the contents "not interest[ing]" to him at the time. "I was
not paying attention. For me, it was not like the Hillary Clinton
server, it was like an email server she and others were using
with political voting stuff," he said.

Neither Fox News nor Tech Insider can independently verify
Lazar's claims. The FBI is
in possession of the private email server as it investigates
whether its use by Clinton was appropriate while she served as
secretary of state.

Clinton's website claims: "No, there is no evidence there
was ever a breach."

Still, it was Guccifer who first exposed Clinton's email server,
after he broke into the email of Sidney Blumenthal, a close
Clinton confidant. But his explanation of how he might have
gained access to the Clinton email server is light on details. He
told Fox he looked up the IP address of Blumenthal's emails to
Clinton and then did a simple web scan and found the server.

After that, he supposedly looked for open ports to exploit. He
didn't offer any more detail. There are quite a few more
technical steps needed to get access to a private server, as
opposed to his past hacks of common email services like AOL and
Yahoo.

As The New York Times
has noted, Guccifer is no computer expert, operating on a
cheap laptop and a cellphone and using tools readily available on
the web. Many of his "hacks" were the result of social
engineering skill and months of guessing security questions until
he got in.

"He was not really a hacker but just a smart guy who was very
patient and persistent," Viorel Badea, the Romanian prosecutor
who directed the case against him, told The Times.